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    What did the United States lose in Vietnam? Before the Vietnam War, communism in the Vietnam was spreading like wildfire, it was spreading at an alarming rate. Pretty much, this is why the U.S went to war with Vietnam, to stop communism. The South Vietnamese absolutely lost their war with North Vietnam. The US was not a party to that war. The war the US fought ended with a peace treaty in which the North Vietnamese gave into US demands. In which the US had achieved its objective and in which the

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    Essay on French Colonialism and Vietnam

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    strategies during his campaign, especially while undertaking Saigon, which resulted in his dismissal in 1859. De Genouilly would be replaced by Admiral Page who had been instructed by the French government to not make any more territorial gains in Vietnam for the French. Page was to only use military action if the catholic missionaries in the region were under any threat. Even though this was what he was ordered to do, this did not last very long as the French under Page began to take over more provinces

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    the United States in Vietnam has been described as a ‘war of liberation’ this can also be used to define Eisenhower’s overall policy towards Vietnam as it was based fundamentally on the fear that it was ‘certain that the fall of Vietnam to Communism would lead to the loss of all of Southern Asia’ and in an attempt to prevent this; his administration adopted a new policy of nation building. The overall aim of nation building was to build a Western government within Vietnam that would be strong enough

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    events that changed the United States was the Vietnam War that lasted roughly twenty years (1955-1975). The Vietnam War, also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The Cold War’s communist influence was what led Vietnam’s government to a communist government on its own. At first the America had no involvement in the

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    Political Games of Vietnam

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    Political games of Vietnam The Vietnam War was a pivotal changing point in the American foreign policy. Through the span of three presidents and the Cold War, Vietnam changed the outlook of America in the world wide arena. After the end of the Indochina war and oppression of Vietnam by the French, the country was split into the north and the south along the 17th parallel. Following the declaration of the Geneva Accord there was to be a demilitarized zone along the north and the south of the 17th

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    The Vietnam War began in 1954 after years of conflict stretching back to the 1940s between the communist regime of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was attempting to make South Vietnam a communist country; since we are a democracy, the United States opposes the views of communist countries, and because we feared the spread of communism the United States became involved as an ally of South Vietnam. The war ended in 1975, resulting in disastrous effects on Vietnam and America. The assertion

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    The Vietnam War, lasting from 1955-1975, initially began as a civil war between North and South Vietnam. The war eventually escalated into a foreign conflict involving multiple countries that backed either region corresponding to their beliefs. The United States supported the democratic ideals of the South and vigorously opposed the communist ideology of the North. They feared that if Vietnam fell to communism, other countries would soon follow, according to the conception of the domino theory.

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    and U.S. involvement in the 2011 Yemeni Civil War protesting the leadership of Yemeni

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    Anti-Vietnam War Era The SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) gave perspective into the mindset of Washington University students during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. These students would provide demonstrations and opinions that would impact the social environment and activities of a time of confusion and political un-justification. Many returning Vietnam Veterans and students would take action during the anti-war era. As the war had continued, the public had changed their views of the war

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    Communism In Vietnam

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    By the 20th century, most Americans saw communism as a threat to democracy, so when the Vietnam War started there was initially a lot of support for it. The U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was unsuccessful because the South Vietnamese leader was just as bad, if not worse, than Ho Chi Minh, the North still won, and unlike popular belief at the time, communism did not spread. The president of South Vietnam during the war was Ngo Dinh Diem, a strong anti-Communist leader, Diem appealed to the South

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